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Peter Sellers | Friday, January 16, 2015, 3:05 PM

Australian should be proud of the many Australian designed vehicles produced by Holden ,Toyota and Ford specificly suited to our tough environment. They should be congratulated despite the uphill battle they endured maintaining production here . They were wrongly nvillified for being subsidized when the reality was the Aussie Dollar was overvalued for decades and thereby subsiding imports by an RBA dominated by importers and those with a long history favouring a high dollar to flood the country with effectively subsidized imports in industry after industry. The irony was the workers own party supported the high dollar which undermined job after job in Manufacturing .With the overvalued dollar German made vehicles flooding the market were cheaper than local made cars and their advertising was almost limitless
It is not to late to encourage these car manufacturers to reassess moving billions in capital out of the country - in a free market they and we should have the access to the cheapest energy in the world ,the cheapest metal resources ,a skilled workforce supplemented with sophisticated robotics which works for the same cost here as in Thailand.
The dollar settings comtrolled by RBA settings of interest rates ,money supply and currency trading are what will determine whats left of our our manufacturing fututre. Why are there no exporters on the RBA? - therein are the keys to the kingdom.